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I S' A TA GE TWO WILL ft 1 (Continued from Page One tf Read the advertising also! in VICKS COUGH DROP to steers sev L' YoHi Grocery 2 5 lbs 12c Large Unions Yeiiow Sweets 5 lbs 9c 5c Cranberries lb 11c Meal 10 13c Macaroni 3 10c (ANSWERS ON PACE 7) A JgaiaSK WHA7 SHIP LAID THE IRST SUCCESSUL ATLANTIC CABLE MAT ISTHE NAME THIS? MARKETS AT A GLANCE WEEK END TOLL ACCIDENTS IS NEAR 400 MARK 3 TO BE TRIED IN Nancy Hall WHAT IS THE MEDI CAL TERM OR PARROT EVER? Presidential lotilla Sails Toward lorida Tip in Hope of Better Luck SOUTHERN CALIORNIA PREPARES TO WELCOME THE NEW YEAR WITH ROSE TOURNAMENT PAGEANTRY More Women Called To Picher Relief Jobs Barnett State Bank Commr vs Jess Rumsey $1397 Roberts Mining Co a Business Trust vs Graves et al re straining order (Compiled by Photo Abstract Co) COURT REUSES extradition of SAMUEL INSULL Osborn Child Buried uneral services for Mary Mae Osborn 3 year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Osborn living on the Picher Cardin highway who died Sunday night were conducted at the Assembly of God church at 1 this afternoon The pastor the Rev Robert Nichols officiated Burial was in A cemetery by the Green Undertaking company China lillies and pink roses' and drawn by white horses Topping off the New pa geant which will be held this year on Jan 2 will be the Rose Bowl football game between the Univer sities of Pittsburgh and Southern California which generally will be recognized as a contest for the na tional football champinship While the Tournament of Roses takes first place in Southern Cali manner of welcoming the New Year there also will be other ways of celebrating the turn of the year Night clubs in Hollywood and other Los Angeles suburbs report heavy reservations Prices thi year will be low for a Eve party Cover charges almost without exception have been abol ished and dinner in some of the clubs is as low as 75 cents with top prices in others not exceeding $5 And with the state prohibition law repealed federal prohibition agents expect a busy time super vising all of Southern fun making resorts No No Kansas City Produce KANSAS CITY Dec Eggs 23c Butter: Creamery 25c butterfat 10 15c packing butter 9c Poultry: Hens 6 9c roosters 3 4c springs 10c Methodist Brotherhood The Methodist Brotherhood of the irst Methodist church will meet at 7:30 Wednesday night at the church The subject for discussion will be Year Resolutions the Week After Christ Jakwav Rites Wednesday uneral services for George Jakway 82 years old who died yes terday morning at the home of a stepson Joe Everett of Baxter Springs will be conducted at the Everett home 405 Wyandotte street Baxter Springs at 2 tomorrow afternoon Burial will be in A cemetery in charge of the Green Undertaking company ISH WARY HOOK WARRANTY DEEDS Lucinda Summers et al to Holbrook single $1 Lot 13 Block 133 Miami red agg et ux to Merle Len ord agg $1 Lots 17 18 and 19 Block 2 Maywood Add Miami CourtboBse News Briefly Chronicled i NEW YORK Dec WU The music hall first entertainment unit of the quarter billion dollar Rocka i feller the structural mir acle that blossomed an economic drouth will blaze open tonight on three bustling sides orty ninth and iftieth streets and Sixth ave nue Like most hew things in the world of the theater it will be the largest entertainment center of its kind in the world Modem to the minute it will accommodate 6200 persons on the main floor and in its three as (Roxy) Rothafel director of enter tainment prefers to call them Twd "hundred fifty police offi cers foot and mounted have been detailed for opening and special traffic lanes will be kept open as far north as Central park nine blocks north Total of 748 Employes urther to handle the opening night attendance there will be TOO doormen ushers and pages The nature of the uniforms of these employes has been kept secret but it is understood they will be a de parture toward simplicity from the elaborate uniforms which havfe dressed the ushers and pages in other amusement places under the Roxy rule When the theater opens tonight there will be on duty in the entird building backstage and in the front of the house 748 persons one em ploye for every nine persons in the audience The figures involved in the new theater are as great as the enterprise itself' Two thou sand costumes are required the nerformaree with annroximatelv 1 1 according to an a tMAHS taa nanerta hall Twenty thousand yards of material were used Program Diversified The entertainment itself is vari ety similar in its diversity to a LOS ANGELES Dec It may be a holiday season else where in the country but in south ern California cities hundreds of busy workers will be employed from now until the morning of Jan 2 completing the spinning of a two mile long ribbon of loveliness the annual Tournament of Roses parade or 44 years Southern Califor nia has welcomed tho New Year with its parade of flowers in Pas adena Entries this year indicate the procession will be the longest on record ifty six major floats reflecting the pageant theme "airy Tales in will take part in the parade which will in clude 16 bands 40 equestrian en tries and scores of elaborately dec orated automobiles Mary Pickford the first woman ever to be given the honor will be grand marshal of the procession Wearing a green satin court gown she will ride in a coach covered with lavender and shell pink peas fed) medium to choice $250 stocker and feeder and choice $375 575 PICHER bee Consta ble Collins of Zincville arid Mac McGee of Picher arrested by Picher authorities yesterday on complaint of Lloyd Donaldson 408 South Emily street who contended they called at the Donaldson home yesterday and created a disturb ance in an attempt to force Don two step children to go with McGee their father were re leased after being confined in the city jail only 30 minutes The men were arrested by Acting Police Chief Lon Bone and Constable A Breedlove Investigation revealed that Mc Gee was endeavoring to obtain pos session of his two children oilow ing the death of their mother wife McGee late yes terday afternoon obtained a court order and took charge of the chil dren The men were released from the city jail on the order of Mayor Mizer when it was learned that no charges had been filed against them Officers Bone and Breedlove stated they were told that County Attorney Perry Porter had ordered the arrests Porter denied ordering the arrest of the men and said he had no knowledge of the affair Attention Masons ft Miami Lodge jT' Election Tonight Signed Russell Doss WITH PRESIDENT HOOVER LORIDA COAST Dec President fishing fleet which so far has caught noth ing worth mentioning was order ed to weigh anchor at dawn today with big game fishing off southern lorida an eventual goal The presidential party after a night spent at anchor at the mouth of the Nassau river headed south ward past Jacksonville and St Au gustine with the possibility that Daytona Beach might be reached by nightfall unless time is taken out for fishing en route 4 In his two angling efforts so far Mr Hoover has met with no suc cess whatsoever and although dis appointed he still was determined to make a fitting haul before turn ing northward Turner Elta Tinsley Maggie Thompson Effie Vann Maude Voyles Pearl Vandagriff Allie Warner Annie Wallace Belle Warf Minnie Watkins Rith Webb Ethel Willis Mattie Ward Ellen Whittenback Rachael Wagoner Bertha Wallace Sarah White Au drey Ward Martha Webster Belle Watkins Iva Wise Nellie Myers Lou Parnell and Leia Rupert The third group of women will complete four work Thurs day 170th Miami Sales Day Monday Jan 9 1933 COL HARRY WILBUR i Auctioneer 304 St Miami Okla Office Phone 128 Res 697 PICHER Dec A fourth group of unemployed Picher wom en of Picher has been called by Mrs Laura McKnight supervisor of the relief sewing room for work riday making garments for desti tute families The women listed should report at the sewing room at riday morning to be gin their four days' work: Margaret Tretbar Elizabeth Chicago Grain CHICAGO Dec 27 May and July deliveries of wheat in Chicago collopsed today to fresh bottom price records for the seas on Weakness of Argentine and Ca nadian wheat markets and indica tions that Buenos Aires and Win nipeg were rivaling each other for export trade had much to do with increased selling pressure here and with dearth of support from buy ers A decrease of 1815000 bush els in the United States wheat vis ible supply total today was almost ignored Wheat closed unsteady 7 8 18 8 under finish corn 1 4 3 4 off oats a shade to 1 4 down and provisions unchanged to 5 cents lower Constable Held in Jail Ohly Half Hour BAXTER SPRINGS Kas Dec 27 (Special) Clark Waid 27 years old a Quapaw Indian died at 1 this morning at his home on ive Mile creek after two years illness Waid a farmer moved to the place 25 years ago with his parents He was born in Baxter Springs Besides his jrife Mrs Avasta i vaudeville bill but elaborated and restyled to include spectacle and ballet numbers of the type seen in moving picture An orchestra of 100 pieces di rected by Emo Rapes will have to play 56 music) composition dur ing the program and arrangers andcopyistz were called upon to provide nearly 5000 parts for the use of the orchestra alone Two hundred spotlights of vary ing power and intensity each with 40 possible color changes are in the theater all controlled from a master board in front of the or chestra Elaborate Sound Equipment On the stage are 50 microphones each with an ampli fier beneath the stage which can be regelated at will The sound equipment has been called the most elaborate ever attempted The ceiling of successive arches has been 'made a sky upon which to produce novel lighting effect Each row of seats has its letter number in lights on the end to facilitate seating One of the most distinguished audiences to attend a New York theater opening in many years is The list of those who are expected to attend includes John Rockefeller Jr and his family Owen Young Aylesworth president of RKO and prominent figures of industry so ciety the stage the music world and the screen 1 In addition to the symphony or chestra a chprus of 100 a Negro choir of 110 and a ballet corps num bering 80 the opening bill includes Titto Ruffo Coe Glade Weber and ields DeWolf Hopper and nunier ous others Another Rockefeller Center the ater the RKO Roxy dedicated to photoplay and stage entertainment will have its opening Thursday night IN THE DISTRICT COURT Wm Thomas vs Laura Ced ar and cl Mtg (taken from App Docket iles not in office) i Earl Dildine a minor by A Dildine his next friend vs Cortez King' Brand Mines Co a Corp $20000 damages Johnson vs George Van sickle $11990 The State of Okla ex rel Dec 28 the Miami Packing com pany will pay the following prices: No 1 bogs 190 to 240 pounds per 100 lbs $265 i In market for heavy sows Others according to market value All sales are direct No yardage or commission tree market Miami Grain Market Grain prices being paid in Miami from noon today until noon to morrow: Wheat White and mixed com Yellow com Oats Miami Produce Market Produce prices being paid Miami today (subject to change tomorrow): Cream Eggs Heavy hens Light hens 1 springers 2 springers Cheese fSS 2 lbs 19c SANTA MONICA Cal Dec Best story in the paper today and there was many of fine charitable acts on Xmas But away out on the Escalante desert between Los Angeles and Salt Lake I have flown over it manyv times one of the most des olate places you ever saw one lonely ranch the father had died and the mother and a whole house full of children Well the pilots on the West ent Air run took up a purse of 80 dollars and got the chil dren clothes and toys and then flew down low on Xmas day and dropped What a Godsend the plane and the radio is to out of the way places Yours COUPLE OUND DEAD IN CABIN according to Greek law and he demanded extradition Lazarimos the junior counsel for Insull followed with a long plea explaining how loans were made according to by laws of the com panies He declared McCormick in his deposition had said that being treasurer he issued the vouchers which Samuel Insull ap proved The vouchers the attor new'said were checked by an audi tor' booked by competent clerks and approved by a comptroller "ji Treasurer McCormick was re sponsible for the custody of the property and Lazarim os added should be indicted first if' an offense existed The by laws permit ted loans to individuals he said £The intent to make a civil Ioan contract he continued was expressed by competent offi 'cers If Mr Insull omitted obtain ing the approval of the board of directors Lazarimos said the re sponsibility was civil If the debt otLWss not brother but somebody else no doubt would ex ist against the defendant the law yer added He went back over Mr history since the time when he was secretary to Thomas A Edison the inventor He praised Mr abi'ity and character He explain ed Mr position when the loans were made and insisted it Was impossible that his client had any intent to commit an offense in order to pay brokers He ex plained Mr Insull paid the brokers in order to avoid a sale of the companies He appealed to the court's demanding rejection of the petition for extradition as not having a legal basis Christos Ladas chief defense counsel asserted the United States upholds the right of asylum gen erally denying extradition except in cases where the offense is prov ed He described Insull as a bene factor to humanity and praised the course his client followed when dis aster overtook his interests He had not finished speaking at the midday recess Northeast Oklahoma Railroad $21633728 Our Annual Payroll Kansas City Livestock KANSAS CITY Dec (PL (U Hogs 3500 150 di rect slow 240 pounds down weak to mostly 10c lower heavier weights dull top $3 on 170 230 pounds good and choice 140 350 pounds $265 3 packing sows 275 500 pounds $235 stock pigs good and choice 70 130 pounds $250 75 Cattle 5500 calves 1000 large ly a fed steer run opening trade generally steady top around 1000 pound steers $615 steers good and choice 600 1500 pounds $4 675 common and medium 600 pounds up $275 475 heifers good and choice 550 850 pounds $450 625 cows good and choice $225 350 vealers (mi IK 550 good During a two and a half hour fishing session yesterday after noon the lone halt made by the presidential party Mr Hoover snared several small fish but he found them so tiny he cast them back into the water He put off from the Sequoia from er nandina la on Amelia Island and sailed for five miles to the north side of the emandine jet ties before casting his line After two hours he gave up in disgust Simultaneously Mrs Hoover Justice Stone of the supreme court and Mrs Stone Senator Austin of Vermont and Mrs Austin and Mark Sullivan the writer put off on a fishing expedition of their own but met with no more luck than did the chief executive Last Saturday under the guid ance of Gus Ohman 60 year old fishing guide known as "King of Daufuskie the President failed to catch a fish during his first two hour attempt of the trip The seven boats making up the presidential flotilla sailed until af ter dusk last night before dropping anchor at the mouth of the Nassau river not far from Black' Ham mock Island The ships presented a pictur esque sight against the dark back ground of the heavily wooded and swampy shore line Lights' from scores of portholes sparkled on the dark waters of the river which is about 250 yards wide at this point Every movement of the picket boats stirred up a swirl of phospho rescent light in the water Although Mr Hoover has not reached any definite decision as to where his cruise will end he has determined to try his hand at sail fish and baracuda probably near the southern tip of the lorida peninsula before returning Washington Carrots Bunches oreign exchanges steady sterling firm Cotton quiet local and south ern selling Chicago Wheat weak season low prices broken Argentine Canadian rival ry Corn relatively1 firm country of ferings meager Cattle mixed active to 25 higher light kinds slow steady others Hogs slow unevenly 5 to 15 low er heavy weights off most Waid he is survived by thre chil dren Margaret Jack and Leroy Waid his parents Mr and Mrs Wald three sisters Mrs Bessie anning and Mrs Bertie Wells of Baxter Springs and Mrs Nellie Edwards of Tulsa and one brother Park Waid of the home uneral services will be 'held 'at 11 Thursday morning at the home by the Rev Walter Michen er Burial i will be inf Baxter Springs cemetery New Projects Bogun Approximately 100 unemployed men of Picher were given work to day on two new Reconstruction i nance corporation projects The group was divided into crews about 60 of whom' were at work deepen ing and widening Chat creek which is being supervised by George Hall The second crew of about 40 men who were in charge of Harry Craig were deepening a drainage ditch on East A street Work on the pub lic park adjacent to the east bank of Chat creek in the vicinity south of Third street is expected to be started within the next few days Claude Carroll is supervisor of this project 18 19 06 04 05 01 32151812 Kansas City Hay KANSAS CITY Dec Hay 44 cars Alfalfa No 1 ex tra leafy $13 14 No 2 $12 50 No 1 $10 1150 No 2 leafy $9 10 Prairie No 1 $750 No 2 $550 725 Timothy No 1 $9 10 No 2' $7750 850 Kansas City Grain KANSAS CITY Dec Wheat: 241 cars down 1 4 to 1 1 2 No 2 dark hard 43 1 4 43 1 2 No 3 42 1 2 43 No 2 hard 39 1 4 43 1 2 No 3 37 3 4 43 No 2 red 39 1 2 No 3 38 1 2 39 Close: Dec 36 1 2 May 37 3 4 July 38 Corn: 23 cars unchanged to 1 4 lower No 2 white nom 20 1 2 21 No 3 nom 19 3 4 20 1 4 Noi 2 yellow nom 20 1 2 21 No 3 nom 19 3 4 20 1 4 No 2 mixed nom 20 1 4 20 3 4 No 3 20 1 4 Close: Dec 19 1 2 May 23 July 24 1 2 Oats: 2 cars down 1 2 No white 17 1 2 No 3 Nom 16 17 1 New York Stocks easy tobacco issues heavy Bonds irregular Govern ments strong i7 Curb irregular fluctuations nar row Alpha Delta Meets Miss Patricia Weigh 602 West A street entertained the Alpha Delta club at her hoirie last night Card playing was the rnairi diver sion of the evening Prizes were won by Kathryn Jennings and Julia Mae Gray and Daisy Jean Ditcler Those present were: Misses Daisy Jean Ditcler and Roberta Everett of Chetopa Kas Naydeen Carrith ers Julia Mae Gray Maxine Illick Betty Botteroff and Lois West Mrs Rumania Malcolm '431 South rances street and brother Jameii Secrist of Rochester Minn spent yesterday afternoon at the home of Mr and Mrs William Zicgel and children East A street Ingredients of Vicks tunnels propping up' wealT places1 VapoRub In Convenient Candy orm to make it safe for rescue work to continue If none are brought out alive the death toll will be the second largest for any mine disaster in the state Millhouse said The largest was in 1909 when fire roared through a coal mine at Cherry snuffing out 267 lives Healer and Co De endants Bound Over at Texas Hearing LINDEN Tex Dec Three men accused of murder the "devil of Bernice Clay ton 3 year old infantile paralysis victim have been bound over for grand jury action i A strange tale of ceremonies in tended to restore the health being climaxed by her death: at a backwoods home west of Linden week agoiwas climaxed at the' ex amining trial of the defendants late yesterday Testimony revealed that praying singing shouting and other rites designed to 'out the believed responsiblerfor her affliction had been carried on for days A self styled Paul Oakley 20 who officers said confessed to choking the child de layed the hearing more than an' hour by ripping off his clothes arid standing naked in his celbwhen of ficers came to conduct him to ithe courtroom Then after other apparel had been found for him he created sensation in the crowded court room by shouting that was im mortal is all got to he declared "I was not I was conceived by God what been telling you all With these words he seated him self beside the other defendants Coy Oakley 25 the brother who described himself as a and Sherman Clayton 80 father of the and refused to any thing Jn a statement officers said he made shortly aftor his arrest Paul Oakley was quoted as saying: thought god sent me to heal' the child but the devil killed her through me I thought it was God working through me but after she was dead God told me I was de ceived it was the Ship by Rail Do Not Leave To Your Neighbors Denver Officers InvestigateL' Death of Boy and Girl 7 at Tourist Camp bsv DEN VER Colo' Dec Their faces distorted with pain Doris Gillian Cool 19 arid Harold Crawford 20 were found dead in a tourist camp cabin near Aurora aSuburb 'v investigating oficers said the two tha'y have been asphyxiated as a gas heater was found burning full blast and the cabin was tightly closed But a definite theory of the tragedy which occurred Christmas night or early yesterday morning was not advanced pending the re sult of a chemical analysis of the contents of two bottles of wine found in the cabin and the contents of the stomachs The operator of the camp said they rented a cabin about 10 Christmas night and on being as sured it was warm told him he need notirturn on the water He said he did not ask them to sign the regis ter because of the cold and lateness I of 'the hour I About noon yesterday a daugh I ler of the proprietor tried unsuc I eessfully to arouse the couple En trance was gained into the cabin to I the boy and girl sprawled on the floor Their clothing was scat tered about Search for Miss Cool was started when she failed to return to the home of Mr and Mrs Edwin John her uncle and aunt with whom she had been staying She had sChristmas dinner with them and Crawford called for her lat er in the day rom there they went to home where he lived with his stepfather and moth '5ar' Mr and Mrs Herbert Morris They left there about 8 pm Itn 14 Rice WholTcrain 10 IBs 31c Magnificent Music Hall irst Unit of New Rockefeller Center Will Open in New York Tonight 5 TUESDAY DECEMBER" 271932 Miss Opal Bumsides 113H East Third street and Mrs Rob erts of Riverside Cal are spending this week visiting with friends and relatives in Springfield Mo Mrs Dorothy Hayman and Miss Lucy Belle Throop spent Christmas day visiting at the homes of friends in Joplin Mrs Bratton 516 South Netta street is reported unimprov ed after several illness Rita Lois Woodward 521 South Vantage street 8 year old daugh ter of Mr and Mrs A Wood ward was admitted to Picher hos pital yesterday f5r treatment of pneumonia Mrs Hale and son Bill Jr and Miss Dollie Hill motored to Springfield Mo today where they will spend the day visiting with friends and relatives Mrs Myrtle Post and daughter Miss Pauline Post of Kansas City Mo were guests Sunday at the home of the daughter Mrs Austin Keithley and Mr Keithley 727 North Alta street The condition of James Abbott South rances street who is a pa tient at Miami Baptist hospital is reported much improved Mr and Mrs Ted Meeks East A street announce the birth of a son I born Saturday He has been nam ed Jerry Theodore Mr and Mrs Carroll McConnell spent last week end visiting at the home of the father Dr Cochrane and family of Car terville Mo Mr and Mrs Ault of Clare more Mr and Mrs Ira Eliff and daughter Kathleen of Pittsburg Bill Withers and Mr and Mrs Cor nell Ault and sons Jerry and Billy spent Sunday as dinner guests at 1 the home of Mr and Mrs Robert i Barnes in Baxter Springs Kas Mr and Mrs Earl Ehrenman of i Lakeside Mo spent Sunday visit I ing at the homes of friends and rel 1 atives in Miami and Picher VfOnsvuuiv aiesse xIavxicig wiu i pen xmarce wicn North Vantage street is confined 5000 fittings needed to his bed on account of a serious an announcement fr illness Mrs Bender was called to Los Angeles Cal yesterday by the serious illness of her son Raymond Bender Members of the irst Baptist Sunday school oficers and teachers staff are urged to be present at their regular meeting at the church at 7:30 Sunday school work for the ensuing year will be dis cussed together with plans for the annual teachers study Reports for the past work will also be read Surviving relatives of Mrs Lil lian Effie Donaldson 32 years old 408 South Emily street who died last Thursday include her husband Lloyd Donaldson a son James Walter McGhee at home a daugh ter Isabelle McGhee also at home a step daughter Eva aye Donald son of Cardin two sisters Mrs Amos and Mrs Tyree of Roanoke Va and a half brother McGhee of Ivanhoe Va Claude Carroll 501 South Treece street is confined to his home on account of an attack of influenza Mrs Amos of Roanoke Va arrived Sunday in response to a message advising her of the death of her sister Mrs Lillian Effie Donaldson 408 South Emily street who died last Thursday night at Miami Baptist hospital following an attack of Appendicitis The fu neral of Mrs Donaldson was held at 2 this afternoon Mr and Mrs Omer Hicks have returned to their home in Oklaho ma City after spending the past five weeks visiting at the homes of friends and relatives in Picher and Joplin Mr and Mrs Hicks were called to Picher five weeks ago on account of the serious illness of Mr brother Noah Hicks who was injured in a mine accident eral weeks ago Continued rom Page One) the wing Saturday to bottle up the fiimez war broken at midnight The shaft was ventilated until 8 a Weary comrades of the entomb ed men resumed their search find ing one body In the passageway outside the wing It was not iden tified immediately The search might take days offi cials said Rocks dirt and tim bers had to bd tunneled through pushed aside or laboriously exca vated as the rescuers bored toward the missing men i State Relief Sought Immecliate relief for the bereav ed families was the pressing need of the little coal community A committee planned to visit Govern or Emmerson in Springfield in hope of expediting aid Cobuni vice president of the bituminous casualty company of Rock Island estimated that de pendents of the trapped miners would receive $200000 under the compensation laws The state industrial commission will fix the amount of each case with a maximum of $4500 for a married man survived by children 1 One funeral procession followed another down main street today as the village buried its dead The mine officials made out checks for back pay of the dead miners and turned them over to their widows The explosion apparently had its greatest effect in the north Wing of the shaped mine he said The men there he believed either were victims of poison gas or had been crushed to death The bodies of the 39 were found in debris at the intersection of the and in the south wing Over the Christmas holidays ex pert rescue squads toiled ceaseless ly burrowing through debrisin the hope of reaching someone alive someone who could guide them to others who might still be alive The efforts were met only by bodies rom time to time rescue squads were driven back by seeping gas and crumbling debris It was necessary to and repair MIAMI NEWS RECORD MIAMI 1 TALK SALES TAX IS REVIVED IN BOTH HOUSES (Continued from Page One) pending controversies surrounding proposals to balance the budget have all but convinced the leader ship that President elect Roosevelt must summon an extra meeting soon after March 4 if campaign pledges are to be speedily fulfilled Gamer yesterday told newspaper men that he personally thought prospects for escaping an extra session were in view of frequent reports of Mr opposition to immediate modifica tion of the Volstead act and to the domestic allotment farm relief plan which House Democrats are push ing But to hurry important legis lation through the mill he instruct ed the House sergeant at arms to arrest absent members if a quorum were not present to do business to day Senate Marking Time The Senate virtually is marking time until the Glass banking re form bill is taken up Jan 5 and it met this noon to recess until riday Meanwhile however a Senate ju diciary subcommittee began a study of the constitutional phases of the Collier 32 percent beer bill with a view to quick action after Jan 1 At the same time Chair man Norris of the judiciary group renewed efforts to get the full committee together tomorrow to beBi formal consideration of the biltT Senator Blaine Wisconsin Re publican who heads the subcom mittee suggested yesterday a plan of revising the Collier bill which already has passed the House so that it would repeal rather than amend the provisions of the Vol stead law He said that if this were done the present limitation of one half of one percent would not remain even though the su preme court should hold 32 beer unconstitutional Speculate Over Sales Tax Speculation was rife today that the Democratic leadership was ready to sponsor the sales tax as a budget balancing measure in view of a statement by Chairman Collier of the House ways and means committee that he would ad vance it if necessary to make in come and expenditures meet He estimated that $500000000 would have to be raised in addition to any beer revenue and war debt payments House Democrats view an emergency farm relief bill as their next big job after Jan 3 but ac tion on any comprehensive nent program seems destined for an extra session dr the next regu lar meeting of Congress Garner has set for consideration of the farm bill which is built around the domestic allotment principle Chairman Jones of the agriculture committee said today his group would act on it as soon as possible Leaders are less hopeful of pro viding a complete solution of the farm credit problem in the brief weeks of a short session But should a bill come from the Sen ate where the Democratic leader Senator Robinson has promised prompt consideration after the Christmas recess the chances of such legislation would be increased measurably Clark WaidDies At Rural Home T71 Kansas A Lb 1 rlOUr Supreme 24 Sack 0OC I HI 10213 LI.

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